Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms /

Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lad...

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Hoofdauteur: Lowe, Lisa (Auteur)
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: London : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Reeks:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • Discourse and heterogeneity : situating orientalism
  • Travel narratives and orientalism : Montagu and Montesquieu
  • Orient as woman, orientalism as sentimentalism: Flaubert
  • Orientalism as literary criticism : the reception of E.M. Forster's Passage to India
  • The desires of postcolonial orientalism : Chinese utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Tel quel
  • Conclusion : orientalism interrupted.